【正文】 f you know what I is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn39。可惜的是，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的一課：機(jī)會(huì)大，并不等于你就會(huì)成功。我提出想向他們出售軟件。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個(gè)月后你再來找我們吧。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時(shí)甚至?xí)械叫箽?，但永遠(yuǎn)充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。人類在健康、財(cái)富和機(jī)遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。但是，人類最大的進(jìn)步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who ，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我簡(jiǎn)單多了。m a bad 39。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅(jiān)持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會(huì)少得多吧。s how I came to be the leader of the antisocial clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social ，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。因?yàn)槊總€(gè)人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。就是從那個(gè)時(shí)候起，我日以繼夜地在這個(gè)小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這導(dǎo)致了我學(xué)生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現(xiàn)在嚴(yán)肅地回憶起來，我確實(shí)有一個(gè)真正的遺憾。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: ―From those to whom much is given, much is expected.‖我的母親一直為我考上哈佛而自豪，也一直督促我回報(bào)社會(huì)?！琖hen you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given – in talent, privilege, and opportunity – there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from ——天賦，特權(quán)，機(jī)遇——世界寄予殷切的期望。Don39。you must start sooner, and carry on 。行動(dòng)起來，時(shí)不我待。Good ，祝你們好運(yùn)！第四篇：比爾蓋茨哈佛畢業(yè)演講Bill Gates鈥? Commencement address at Harvard University,2007(extract)Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the greatcollections of intellectual talent in the for?There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and thebenefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?Let me make a request of the deans and the professors鈥攖heintellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please askyourselves:Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world鈥檚 worstinequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty鈥he prevalence of world hunger鈥he scarcity of clean water鈥he girls kept out of school鈥he children who die from diseases we can cure?Shou。不僅用專業(yè)成就來衡量成功，還要看你是如何解決人類根深蒂固的不平等問題。你們對(duì)不平等現(xiàn)象的認(rèn)識(shí)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過我們這代人。它將是你生命中最寶貴經(jīng)歷。既便不打算以此為業(yè)，你一樣可以有所作為。當(dāng)時(shí)我母親已經(jīng)是癌癥晚期，但她堅(jiān)持要用這個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)表達(dá)自己的觀點(diǎn)。但是，人類最大的進(jìn)步并不來自于這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，而是來自于那些有助于減少人類不平等的發(fā)現(xiàn)。人類在健康、財(cái)富和機(jī)遇上的不平等大得可怕，它們使得無數(shù)的人們被迫生活在絕望之中。哈佛的生活令人愉快，也令人感到有壓力，有時(shí)甚至?xí)械叫箽?，但永遠(yuǎn)充滿了挑戰(zhàn)性。但是他們卻說：“我們還沒準(zhǔn)備好，一個(gè)月后你再來找我們吧。我提出想向他們出售軟件。可惜的是，我正是在這里學(xué)到了人生中悲傷的一課：機(jī)會(huì)大，并不等于你就會(huì)成功。Radcliffe was a great place to were more women up there, and most of the guys were sciencemath bination offered me the best odds, if you know what I is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn39。哈佛的課外生活也很棒，我在Radcliffe過著逍遙自在的日子。t even signed up dorm life was lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn39。因此，我是個(gè)有著惡劣影響力的人。我想這大概使我有資格代表我這一類學(xué)生發(fā)言??在所有的失敗者里，我做得最好。I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your my part, I39。ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I39。s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce 。But taking a serious look back … I do have one big ，如果現(xiàn)在嚴(yán)肅地回憶起來，我確實(shí)有一個(gè)真正的遺憾。就是從那個(gè)時(shí)候起，我日以繼夜地在這個(gè)小小的課外項(xiàng)目上工作，這導(dǎo)致了我學(xué)生生活的結(jié)束，以及通往微軟公司的不平凡的旅程的開始。re not quite ready, e see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn39。s first personal offered to sell them ，發(fā)生在1975年1月。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多數(shù)男生都是理工科的。因?yàn)槊總€(gè)人都知道我從不考慮第二天早起。s how I came to be the leader of the antisocial clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social ，哈佛的求學(xué)經(jīng)歷是一段非凡的經(jīng)歷。如果我在你們?nèi)雽W(xué)歡迎儀式上演講，那么能夠堅(jiān)持到今天在這里畢業(yè)的人也許會(huì)少得多吧。m a bad 39。s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who ，你們拿到學(xué)位可比我簡(jiǎn)單多了。ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my 。我們要做的最后一步就是衡量工作的成果，并與他人共享我們的成功與失敗。如果我們想讓自己的同情心發(fā)揮作用，找到解決方案非常必要。另一方面，即使我們看到這樣的報(bào)道，也不太情愿仔細(xì)閱讀。更嚴(yán)重的問題并不是飛機(jī)失事，而是全球數(shù)以百萬計(jì)的可避免死亡。即使有了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和24小時(shí)新聞播報(bào)，我們?nèi)匀缓茈y真正地了解問題。這讓我們感到心碎，我們之所以沒有采取任何行動(dòng)，并不是我們沒有同情心，而是因?yàn)槲覀儾恢廊绾稳プ?。拯救這些孩子的生命并不會(huì)帶來市場(chǎng)回報(bào)，政府也沒有為此提供補(bǔ)貼。我們會(huì)對(duì)自己說：―這并不是真的。此外，一種我們從未聽說的疾病——輪狀病毒每年要?dú)⑺?0萬兒童，但其中沒有一名美國兒童。我希望你們過去幾年都曾經(jīng)認(rèn)真想過，應(yīng)當(dāng)如何應(yīng)對(duì)這樣的不平等，以及如何解決這些問題。不管通過何種方式，民主、公共教育、醫(yī)療保健、或者是經(jīng)濟(jì)合作，消除不平等才是人類的最大成就。當(dāng)我離開哈佛時(shí)，我并沒有意識(shí)到這個(gè)世界存在著可怕的不平等現(xiàn)象。在哈佛的日子有快樂，也有失落，但總是充滿挑戰(zhàn)?！@對(duì)我來說是一個(gè)好消息，因?yàn)槲覀儺?dāng)時(shí)還沒有完成軟件開發(fā)。(笑)微軟的起步在哈佛的日子里，最令我難忘的一天是在1975年1月。正是在這樣的環(huán)境下，我成長(zhǎng)為反社會(huì)集團(tuán)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。對(duì)我來說，在哈佛的經(jīng)歷是一段難忘的體驗(yàn)?！娝苤?dāng)初史蒂夫我明年要換工作(注：指全力投入比爾及梅琳達(dá)基金會(huì)的慈善工作)，有了學(xué)位我的簡(jiǎn)歷看起來會(huì)更好一些。you have to convey the human impact of the work – so people can feel what saving a life means to the families remember going to Davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel that was discussing ways to save millions of !Think of the thrill of saving just one person’s life – then multiply that by millions.… Yet this was the most boring panel I’ve ever been on – boring even I couldn’tbear made that experience especially striking was that I had just e from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with love getting people excited about software – but why can’t w